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I am honored to be here as co-chair of President Obama's re-election campaign. -- Eva Longoria
When you have an election campaign,it has to be simple and something everybody can relate to. -- Andrew Lansley
I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign. -- Park Geun-hye
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes. -- Carl Bernstein
I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning. -- Lee Myung-bak
As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections. -- John Harwood
I was looking at a photograph of the 1997 election campaign yesterday, and I thought: 'My God. Did I really have that hairstyle? And that Tory blue suit?' -- Theresa May
I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up. -- Lucy Powell
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa. -- Henry Adams
Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. -- Milton Berle
Texas has a lot of electrical votes. [During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election] -- Yogi Berra
Our party supports decriminalisation of cannabis. It's not a priority for this election campaign but it has been a long-standing policy of ours. -- Metiria Turei
We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania. -- Bob Brown
During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson. -- Robert Dallek
I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term. -- Ed Rollins
Besides, does it really matter who hacked Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton's election campaign team database? Does it? What really matters is the content shown to the community. This is what the discussion should be held about. -- Vladimir Putin
President Obama announced his re-election campaign, though itâ??s not really a surprise. He did all the things that make it official: He filed the paperwork, redesigned his website, and printed another fake birth certificate. -- Craig Ferguson
The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy. -- Richard V. Allen
I am convinced that international terrorism gave itself the goal of not allowing the re-election of Bush. The statement by bin Laden in the final stages of the pre-election campaign is the best confirmation of this. -- Vladimir Putin
President Obama's re-election campaign said that this year they'll knock on 150 percent more doors than they did in 2008. Well, of course they will. They have to. There's so many foreclosures it's tough to tell where people live. -- Jay Leno
As you may have heard, former President Bill Clinton says he's coming here to California to help Governor Gray Davis in his recall election campaign. Which is ironic, isn't it? When Clinton was president, he couldn't recall anything. -- Jay Leno
During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic. -- Elliott Abrams
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president. -- Mark McKinnon
It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign - and I don't think this was an accident - the 9/11 Commission delivers its report. -- Michael Hayden
Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances. -- Bob McDonnell
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate. -- Julia Gillard
If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them -- Arvind Kejriwal
As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change. -- Adam Braun
One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making. -- Jon Meacham
No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace. -- Robert Fogel
Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections. -- George McGovern
I lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did. -- Mitt Romney
Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past. -- Mark McKinnon
The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over. -- Mike Rounds
Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union. -- Robert Dallek
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas. -- Matt Taibbi
Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better. -- Beth Simone Noveck
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone. -- Questlove
George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around. -- Karen DeCrow
Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election. -- Peter Schuyler
The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but for the campaign. If so, it is not a campaign expenditure. -- Bradley A. Smith
I've campaigned for people. I've campaigned across the country for people. I have supported people in local elections. I do work with groups and causes. So, I feel like I am a participant and a civically-engaged citizen. -- Caroline Kennedy
The pressure of the [election] campaign has a wonderful way of revealing your strengths and weaknesses. -- William J. Clinton
Are you excited about the recall election? Arnold's campaign has a new slogan: 'Win one for the groper.' -- David Letterman
Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day. -- Gough Whitlam
Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over! -- Craig Ferguson

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